Guide to buying and boycotting
Guide to buying and boycotting
Boycotting something as major as most of the chocolate industry is not easy. But it’ s a vital step in showing the chocolate industry that it’ s time to change. In fact, it was time to change a long time ago. Remember that we, the consumers, are the people who have the power. Companies won’ t produce products if not enough people buy them. Then they will have to turn to an alternative that people will buy: products made with Fairtrade Certified cocoa. So when you buy chocolate, buy Fairtrade Certified chocolate! This way we can show the entire industry that they need to change.
Fairtrade Certified products extend to a wide variety of things, not just chocolate and coffee. When you can, buy Fairtrade.
Don’ t buy: Ben & Jerry’ s Chocolates by Bernard Callebaut Fowler’ s Chocolate General Mills( owns Häagen Dazs) Godiva Guittard Chocolate Company Hershey’ s( produces Reese’ s) Kraft Foods:( owns Nabisco, Toblerone and Cadbury *) Lindt and Sprungli( owns Ghirardelli) Mars( owns Galaxy) Nestlé See’ s Candies The Chocolate Vault Unilever( owns Algida and Breyer’ s Ice Cream)
Basically, anything not listed in the‘ Do buy’ list.
* Cadbury products contain roughly 90 % Fairtrade Certified cocoa, and it is moving towards being 100 % Fairtrade Certified.
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Do Buy:
Fairtrade chocolate. Please note that even though some products of a brand may be Fairtrade Certified, not all of the products are necessarily Fairtrade Certified.
If we buy Fairtrade Certified products from brands that use Côte d’ Ivoire cocoa, then they may start producing more Fairtrade Certified products.
For example, Nestlé offers Fairtrade certified KitKats as well as their regular KitKats. They are identical except for the source of cocoa which is used. If consumers lean more towards Fairtrade certified KitKats, then Nestlé may change its preferences.
Organic Chocolate, for instance grown in Costa Rica. See page18 for more information.